Termination license URS

Integrity and full co-operation of the licensed Certification Bodies (CBs) is the highest good for FSSC 22000. When CBs do not meet with the FSSC 22000 requirements and have received several official warnings, their case will be brought to the Sanction Committee.

On July 25th last the FSSC 22000 Sanction Committee decided to terminate the Agreement between URS and the Foundation, with a notice period of 6 months, per the 25th of January 2017.

Consequences

URS is not allowed to perform FSSC 22000 audits and to issue any FSSC 22000 certificates.

All URS FSSC 22000 clients are to be informed of this decision as soon as possible and transferred to an other licensed and accredited CB.

The status of the certificates in the FSSC 22000 database are to be changed to Cancelled.

Access to the FSSC 22000 database will be blocked per 25th of January 2017. As such enough time is provided to change the status of the certificates after successful transfer.

The use of the FSSC 22000 name and trademark is not permitted after termination.

The AB will be informed of this decision.

Sanction Committee Procedure

The Sanction Committee exists of three members of the FSSC 22000 Board of Stakeholders. Cases for the Sanction Committee are presented anonymously to enable the members to make an objective judgment. The Committee has four penalties that can be imposed: